charms, from hence thofe ftill tranfparent refervoirs are vifible in the midft of the avenue; thefe, and the alcove which terminates the view, afford a fine luftre to its embofomed fides, and compleat the beautiful picture. This building feems to be erected merely as an object to adorn the vifta, no other point being remarkable; indeed, when we turn our eyes upon the wild art of the park, which from hence is taken in, it ferves as a contraft to the magnificence and beauty of its correfponding parts; and from a bench juft behind, a moft delightful view looks full upon it, taking in a handfome Gothic feat, the Clent hill, the ruin, and the woods. The walk from this graceful dome winds in a wild carelefs manner, among ftraggling trees and deep glens, ragged, rude, and steep, into a large body of K 3 lawn, lawn, where a fmall bench under an oak gives a picturefque view of the wood, and takes in the Ruin, moft romanticly, over its branching arms: a little farther the path ranges clofe by the pale of the park, through a formal avenue of elms, by the neat vicarage houfe, the noble wood always in fight, and remarkably great, to THOMSON's SEAT, elegantly built in an octangular form, and his Lordship, who loved and did every thing in his power to fhew his friendship to the poet, erected this temple to his memory, thus infcribed, INGENIO IMMORTALI VIRI BONI; MEDICULAM HANC, IN SECESSU, QUEM VIRUS DILEXIT, POST POST MORTEM EJUS CONSTRUCTAM DICAT DEDICATQUE That is, To the immortal genius Of JAMES THOMSON, A fublime poet; A good man ; This temple (built after his death) in that recefs Which when living he delighted in, Is erected and dedicated, By GEORGE LYTTELTON. The view from this charming recefs, which gives beauty to fo many others in the park, very juftly claims the attention of the fpectator, and was the favourite fpot of the above-mentioned gentleman. The gently floping lawn expands itself and falls into the deep darkened grove, rifing in all its pride up the declivity of the oppofite hill; where, in the midft, Pope's building over the vivid foliage of t the the lower part of the wood, mingles in the rich scene; and higher on the left, one of the Clent hills at a confiderable distance, adorned with a groupe of firs, clofes the view on that fide, and the ftupendious hills of Malvern, from an opening of the grove, at least twenty miles diftant, terminate it, on the other. From hence the path bends on the right within the fhade to The COLUMN, on which stands an elegant ftatue of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the father of his present Majefty, executed in a masterly manner. This pillar is erected upon a delicious eminence, skirted by the moft beautiful grove imaginable; while the dark ample firs behind, mingling with the lighter tint of the other trees, give it an agreeable richness, richness, and add a higher luftre to the building. I don't remember to have feen a more chearful enlivening profpect, than appears from this lovely brow; the verdure of the sweeping lawns, the inexpreffible richness of the fpreading trees, the beauty of the house, and the luxuriant, uninterrupted expanfe beyond it, affords at once, one of the moft fplendid, diverfified scenes, the eye can wifh for, or nature can give. Down from this fpot, which calls in fo many beauties, the path leads again to the alcove already defcribed, and runs into that which takes to the house. Whether this delightful place be confidered as a garden or a park, or both, its beauties every way correfpond, and every scene is conducted with the strongeft marks of a lively fancy and delicate taste. The elegance of its buildings, happily arranged in every point of view, throw |